I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI

Great idea! After all why reinvent the wheel with TUI libraries built in a popular browser-based front-end javascript framework?

JoshTriplett an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember using talk back when first learning Linux in college. I enjoyed the character-by-character aspect of it.

Yes, I've wondered many times why there are no modern (human to human) chat interfaces that implements that, rather than sentence by sentence.

	▲	Brian_K_White 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The same reason tar and dd and practically everything operates on blocks not bytes, plus the same reason the shell doesn't act until eol delimiter, the opportunity to edit before submit. I think talk could get away with it because on a shared local host both sides are accessing the same local physical resource directly, no tcp packet per byte.

nenadg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used talk back in 90ties and loved it and still missing it. Interfacing this with LLM is a nice touch.

Chris2048 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Interesting chat widget in the corner.

I've been looking for something similar I saw once, it was a chat widget connecting to everyone looking at the same webpage.

But it was called something like "aarrrgh!!" (the pirate), and I can't remember the name of the damn thing!